checking process time

[Rossz Vamos-Wentworth]

I have a perl script used as a pipe for email that does some special 
processing of data.  Occassionally, unfortunately, it gets "stuck" and 
does not terminate.  When this happens, it ends up using most of the CPU 
and pretty much screws up the system.  Until I can track down what is 
causing the infinite loop I was wondering if there was a way to check 
the life of a process of a specific name and execute an event handler if 
it's been running too long.  The script should only take a few seconds 
to run, so I figure if it is more than a few minutes old I can simply 
have nagios kill the problem process (e.g. (kill -9 pid" should do the 
job).

There is the problem if necessary privileges, too, but that's easy 
enough to overcome.

--
Rossz


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